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For their paper „Media Makes Momentum“ published in the Review of Financial Studies, Alexander Hillert, Heiko Jacobs, and Sebastian Müller received the first prize of the 2015 ACATIS Value Award.

The first lecture of the course „FIN 580: Derivatives I – Basic Strategies and Pricing“ is given on Monday  7.9.2015 from 8:30 to 10:00 in the room SN 163 Manfred Lautenschläger Hörsaal, Schloss Schneckenhof Nord. The lectures take place every week in the same room at the same time. For exercise ...

We are glad to announce that Johannes Müller has received the „ACATIS Value Preis“ award by the „ACATIS Investment GmbH“. His thesis has the title „Going down the income statement to explain the cross section of stock returns“ and it was written in the fall semester of 2014. For more information on ...

On July 24, 2015, The Wall Street Journal published an article discussing the paper „The Impact of Financial Advice on Trade Performance and Behavioral Biases” by Daniel Hoechle, Stefan Ruenzi, Nic Schaub, and Markus Schmid on its webpage. The press article can be found here.

Prof. Dr. Nic Schaub has received an award by the Karin-Islinger-Stiftung for his doctoral dissertation entitled „Three Essays on the Benefits and Costs of Financial Advisors and Data Providers“. For more information on the award, please see here. Prof. Dr. Schaub received his doctoral degree at the ...

We are very glad to announce that Christian Aanstad has received an award by the „Stiftung Kommunikations- und Medien­wissenschaften“ (KMW). His thesis has the title „Attracting Investor Attention around Insider Sales through Advertising“ and it was written in the spring semester of 2014. In the ...

The paper “Financial Advice and Bank Profits” by Stefan Ruenzi and co-authors will be presented at this year’s annual meeting of the Financial Intermediation Research Society in Reykjavik. You can find the full conference agenda here.

The paper “Journalist Disagreement” by Alexander Hillert and co-authors will be presented at this year’s annual meeting of the European Finance Association in Vienna. You can find the full conference agenda here.

For their paper „Media Makes Momentum“ published in the Review of Financial Studies, Alexander Hillert, Heiko Jacobs, and Sebastian Müller received this year’s „Nachwuchspreis“ (Young Researcher Award) from the Verband der Hochschul­lehrer für Betriebs­wirtschafts­lehre (Association of Business ...

929 Media, an information provider to the financial services industry, published an article discussing the paper „Mutual Fund Shareholder Letter Tone – Do Investors Listen?“ by Alexander Hillert, Alexandra-Niessen Ruenzi, and Stefan Ruenzi. The press article can be found here.